Malawi Orphan and Community Project
"Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan and Community Care to help HIV/AIDS Orphans, vulnerable children and their families in rural Malawi. We support children through school and work on grassroots development initiatives"
Working with Joshua Orphan and Community Care Quest4Change helps provide a safe and secure living environment for orphans, vulnerable children and their families in the Pensulo district of Malawi.
What's the problem?
Each community we work in suffers from the debilitating effects of significant poverty coupled with rising HIV/AIDS rates, poor road networks, lack of clean, piped water and electricity, and very few health and education facilities.
How Quest4Change helps
By providing volunteer support to self-help community groups, predominantly constructing schools, small businesses and medical centres. Volunteer donations are used on sustainable development projects through the construction of feeding stations and school buildings, developing tree-planting initiatives, school scholarship funds and related projects to improve the livelihoods of the rural communities
Project Partner
Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan and Community Care on this project, supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 2 - Achieving universal Primary Education by 2015 and Goal 4 - Reducing child mortality.
Latest News:
Paul Deaville and Steve Robinson were two members of this year's Quest4Change Brighton Marathon team who decide to specifically raise money to sponsor children in Malawi through school. Between them so far they have raised more than £950 which will support two children through 5years worth of secondary education - Well done guys!
Congratulations two the two 2009 Quest4Change teams who built a double classroom in Chitakale village and a clinic staff house in the village of Pensulo. They lived and worked alongside local people to make a real difference to their lives (construction and finished pictures above).
Over the next two years the main aim will be to construct a two-room classroom in Kachumbe, complete both a clinic in Pen Sulo and a feeding station in Sigerege. Each Quest volunteer's donation will continue to fund a child through 5 years of secondary education. A key focus of this project is also to help our project partners to develop community awareness on environmental education, deforestation and HIV.
Achievements:
How you can help
- Volunteer
- Be a Secret Millionaire for this project, don't worry, you don't have to be an actual millionaire to help out!
Sponsor a child for secondary school; £75 will send a child to secondary school in Malawi.
Education in Malawi is discontinued after primary level and families can not fford secondary. Your gift will support an Aids orphan in rural Malawi any pay for school fees, books and uniform. 115 million children of primary age do not attend school- that is a tragedy for each individual child- you can help, one child at a time. Your gift will not only benefit the child bu the whole community.
You will receive a personalised gift card thanking you for your support and regular e-mails throughout the year letting you know what is being achieved with your help. If it's a gift for someone then this can be personalised and sent directly to the recipient.
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